For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.Contemporary English VersionI am sure what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us. English Revised VersionFor I reckon...
Literally, "the weariness;" but the word is clearly used here for "suffering" generally. Since the time of the kings of Assyria. The kings of Assyria, in the strictest sense of the word, had been God's original instrument for punishing his rebellious people. A king not mentioned in ...
than through the stripes and wounds, the blood and sacrifice, of the Son of God. Christ is a wonderful physician; he heals by taking the sicknesses of his people upon himself, by bearing their sins, and being wounded and bruised for them, and by his enduring blows, and suffering death ...
Society judges hoarders but most people are suffering in silence. Few want to admit it but we’re all holding onto something whether it may be physically, mentally or emotionally. I pray that you acknowledge your hurt and ask the Lord to give you the strength to remove the “mountain” of...
Throughout the ages, we can see that some people do not seem to desire to advance in the knowledge of God. But Jehovah God wants to give everybody the opportunity to get to know Him. For that matter, He sent out many prophets to tell about Him and to warn about future events. It ...
(Ephesians 1:7) at the Parousia (Luke 21:28), when suffering, sin, and death are wholly done away, and in the glorifying (resurrection, or relative transformation) of the body there sets in the δόξα of the children of God, and the in all all-determining dominion of God (1 ...
when we see we cannot use it without harm to other Christians. And here he proposeth to them his own example, who had restrained himself in three things, to two of which he had a liberty, and yet avoided it, and that not to prevent their sinning, but only their suffering, and that...